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M. J. HALLIBURTON.

COMBINED SEEDER AND CART. No. 331,131. Patented Nov. 24,1885.

. 'tjnirn starts Ararat FlFlClEt MARTIN J. HALLIBURTON, OF PORTAGEVILLE, MISSOURI.

COMBINED SEEDER ANDCART.

SPECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,131, dated November 24, 1885.

Application filed September 8, 1881. Serial No. 1 -l2,520. (No model.)

' TON, a citizen of the United States of America,

residing at Portageville, in the county of New Madrid and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Goinbined Seeders and Carts, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention is an improvementin seedingmachines and in a combination of a seedingmachine with a road'cart.

It consists of a convertible seeder and cart having a removable and adj ustably-pivoted seeder-frame carrying the opener, thehopper, a seeder-wheel, and a housing for same, and having suitable cranks and raising and lowering devices, all of which are arranged in a manner to be hereinafter described.

It consists, secondly, in combination with the said seeding-machine, of a body mounted upon Wheels,which,when attach ed to the seeding-machine, constitutes the moving medium of the same over the land, and when detached may be used independently as a road-cart, all of which will be herein fully set forth.

In my drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention,showing the two parts combined. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a section of the seeding portion proper,showing its relation to the openingplow.

Similar reference-letters indicate like parts in all of the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A is a frame braced laterally at two or three points, and open in the rear to receive a coverer. B is the coverer, formed preferably of cast-iron, and

provided with an axle, c, journaled in the frame A. At the ends of the axle c are formed cranks b b.

At a point near the front of the frame A is mounted a housing, 0, which incases or covers a seed-cylinder, J, and supports a hopper, K, which communicates by a suitable opening with the said seed-cylinder. The seed-cylin der J, at a middle point between its two ends, is provided with slots at suitable intervals around the same of a depth to suit the kinds and quality of seed to be dropped. Said cylinder J has a shaft, K, which is fashioned at its ends to form cranks e, which correspond with certain cranks,b b, on the ends of the shaft of the roller. These cranks e and b I) are connected by pitmanrods f, through which motion is communicated from the roller to the seed-cylinder.

At the forward end of the frame A is secured a plow, D, whiclnbeing fixed in line with the slots of the seed-cylinder, serves to open the furrow in advance of the dropping seed.

The cart is composed of the body E, axle M, and suitable wheels and a seat. The axle M is bent up at right angles to form a space beneath for the free movement of the seedingmachine frame and other parts of the seeder. At the rear of the cart-body is journaled a shaft, F, upon which are fixed three pulleys, g h t, provided each with an annular groove. The two first-mentioned pulleys are fixed at points within the body E just above the frame of the seeding-machine when the latter is in place beneath the cart. The pulleys g h, j ust referred to, are connected to the frame A of the seedingmachine by chains Z. Chains m in the forward part of the cart serve to connect the seederframe and the cart-body. To the side of the cart-body is pivoted a lever, H, the short arm of which is connected to the pulley i by a chain, It. Asegmental toothed rack, I, is fixed to the side of the cart-body just above the pivot of the lever H, and serves to engage the free arm of said lever and hold it to adjustment. The cart body is provided with a tongue, which is braced to the forward part of the frame in the usual manner.

It is desirable at times to lift the covering-- roller fromthe ground-as, for instance,when a turn is made in the field, or when the seeder is to be taken from the field. In such cases thelever H is brought into play and thrown forward to draw the chain 70, in order to revolve the sh aft and pulleys fixed thereon. Ghains Z Z are now wrapped about the pulleys g h to lift the roller-frame, and with it the roller.

It is obvious that when the lever H is freed from its hold the chains attached to the pulleys will uncoil and lower the roller again to the ground.

The cart-body is provided with cleats near the lower edges of its sides on the inside to receive the floor which is adjusted to place in parts when the seeder is detached and out of 10 a supporting-frame by chains and ropes. These features I do not claim, broadly, as features or as features in combination.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters I 5 Patent, is-

In a convertible seeder and cart,the removable and adj ustably-pivoted seeder-frame composed of the side and cross bars, carrying the opener D, hopper K, housing 0, shaft K, seed-wheel J,with cranks e e, coverer B, with cranks b b, and raising and lowering devices H k2 Z, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature,in

presence of two witnesses, this 29th day of 2 January, 1883.

MARTIN J. HALLIBURTON. Witnesses:

EDw. DELISLE, L. F. LINN. 

